Blogs Posts in Cake category; 271 blog posts

Chiffon cake: heavenly light, deceptively rich-tasting

Heralded as "the first new cake in 100 years" when it was introduced, the chiffon cake — one of the darlings of midcentury cuisine — became famous for its wonderfully light and airy texture, seemingly weightless as a [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Taking the (Cup)cake

Cupcakes have been getting huge, both literally and figuratively, for years. Celebrated in Saturday Night Live’s famous “Lazy Sunday” video in 2005, they now star in their own television reality show, the Food Network&rs [...]

Posted On : May, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Flourless coffee chocolate cake

Recently a friend gave me a few packages of instant coffee. I am normally not a big fan of drinking instant but have had good luck in cooking and baking with it. I came across a recipe that looked intriguing to me. I have never made a flo [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Five Minute Chocolate Cake

I've been nursing a wicked hangover today (the 20% of social butterfly in me had 120% of fun last night; note to self: O-bombs + Rumple Minze + vodka/sodas = not cool), and thus I've also been eating like it's going out of st [...]

Posted On : Apr, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Quinoa Chocolate Cake

This cake contains no wheat-in fact it contains no flour of any kind. Made with cooked quinoa puréed in the blender until smooth, the dessert has adense, moist texture and intense chocolate flavour. It's from apopular new book [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Chocolate master tips

MASTER chocolatier Thomas Schnetzler from Lindt shares his recipe for a decadent chocolate carrot cake recipe which makes an ideal Easter dessert. ``Chocolate, spices and nuts make this a delectable, rich and interesting combination, and [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Passover Chocolate Cake Recipe

I had the privilege of celebrating Passover in Israel many years ago with a religious cousin. I was served shmura matzo, which is a half-inch thick and about the circumference of a sedan hubcap. This matzo was the real McCoy, having been [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Truffles, Date Cake and More Passover Desserts From Four Fam...

Any chef will tell you that the secret to a great Passover dessert is not trying to make kosher-for-Passover versions of year-round cakes. Don’t even think about baking a loaf cake or pie that requires switching out cups of flour f [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Spectacular desserts that leave out dry and spongy

With all the restrictions, are decent desserts even possible during Passover? “My particular talent is working around restriction,” says Paula Shoyer, author of “The Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Tradit [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Cake Creativity

Well, they are not actually called "extreme cakes", but "3D cakes," according to baker Justine Pratt, who crafts them from her home kitchen in Sebring. You may have seen them before on shows like "Cake Boss" [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Chocolate Cake and Bourbon

On Monday night I pitch my tent in the dark, roll out my sleeping bag and make a pillow out of clothing. I am in California’s Yuha Desert with my bike and two panniers. I have just ridden a little over 70 miles and I’m tired. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

A chocolate cake recipe that can be made hot or cold

With the weather constantly changing temperatures from hot to cold these days, why not make a cake that is versatile for both weather conditions? Chef Christopher, from Christpher's and Crush Lounge, shared a recipe that can be [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Learning Physics Through Molten Chocolate Cake (Video)

Several hundred people packed the room for the "Science of Cooking: Motivating the Study of Freshman Physics" talk given by Harvard's David Weitz. In the course, students (who sometimes had no science background) l [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Beetroot Chocolate Cake (V, GF)

Ingredients: 1/2 C rice flour 1/4 C buckwheat flour 3/4 C almond meal, tightly packed 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp baking powder 3/4 C cocoa 1 C caster sugar 300 gms (about 5 small) raw beetroot 1/2 C apple sauce 1 tbsp [...]